[governance] RE: Licensing Dispute Threatens Future of Skype

[Michael Gurstein]

Sorry, I was just the messenger on the Skype subscribers numbers and have no
idea of the ultimate source (the article came from the Bloomberg news
service via Yahoo as I recall...

M

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From: Roland Perry [mailto:roland at internetpolicyagency.com] 
Sent: Saturday, August 01, 2009 8:30 AM
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Subject: Re: [governance] RE: Licensing Dispute Threatens Future of Skype


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In message <18447FEC22F74575A0CDB5D44C437D9A at userPC>, at 08:06:46 on 
Sat, 1 Aug 2009, Michael Gurstein <gurstein at gmail.com> writes
>According to one of the articles discussing this, Skype currently has 
>480 MILLION subscribers i.e. roughly 8% of all the people on earth and 
>probably 50% of all those currently connected to or otherwise using the 
>Internet!

In the last couple of years I've seen the "number of users online" 
figure they publish on their user interface creep past 12 million, but 
that includes those who automatically load the application and then 
don't use it very often.

I've seen some other figures which say eBay has 370 million accounts, 
but only 65 million are "active" (which they define as having made at 
least one transaction in the previous 12 months).

How many "active" Skype accounts are there, and how would you define it?
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